# The Nature of Music

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Milton Mermikides
- Year: 2023
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/nature-music)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

How is music able to convey and trigger such range and depth of emotion? Why does it elicit joy, sorrow, consolation and the chills? Employing research and theoretical models from neuroscience, psychology and musicology, we examine the extraordinary ways that primal and conditioned listening combine to such complex emotive effect. Examples from pop, jazz, rock, film, global, traditional and classical forms are presented under the light of nostalgia, visual imagery, emotional contagion, rhythmic entrainment, aesthetics, expectation and the extra-musical.

## Lectures

1. [Why Music Moves Us](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-nature-music/2d75d200fa72) (YouTube)
2. [The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-nature-music/77ca3a0dc9ed) (YouTube)
3. [The Art and Science of Tuning](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-nature-music/dc2c12ea67e0) (YouTube)
4. [The Colour Spectrum of Scales and Modes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-nature-music/86279d6e7835) (YouTube)
5. [Musical Consonance and Dissonance: The Good, Bad and Beautifully Ugly](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-nature-music/2309ec298382) (YouTube)
6. [Is Music Infinite?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-nature-music/9e4ce4e320bb) (YouTube)